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7) And Then

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7) And Then
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In that remote place, after experiencing so much - crying, laughing, meeting many people, parting ways, building and tearing down repeatedly, writing and revising over and over - looking at the clumsy contract forms from those days with their signatures still remaining...

Sometimes, while reading personal writings like diary entries, going through this process of proofreading them to make a book - how will those thoughts and those times feel later?

This isn't just about my book-making. It might be everyone's daily life. I think only the subject has changed.

In a single day, we start things multiple times and revise multiple times. It could be the list on a grocery memo, or it could begin with a cool gulp of an iced latte from takeout.

Sometimes it could start grandly with joining your first company, or perhaps it's a new beginning as you close a small business from the past year.

Perhaps joining your first company ends the immaturity of childhood, or perhaps closing a small business means letting go of anguish and greed.

It failed. From the very beginning of this writing, through fixing and refixing, trying and changing, at the end of a year-long journey...

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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